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SubjectRe: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux
¡Hola!

> I suspect that it would be very safe to write random data over
> a file several times.
> Unfortunately the current /dev/random and /dev/urandom are very
> slow in generating data. Therefore I would rather like a
> /dev/frandom for fast, low quality randomness.
Read from /dev/[u]random, use srandom(3) with that and then just
get your low quality numbers from random(3).

> Thomas
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